EmpowerAR also offers a compre-hensive means for creating and printing invoices. With features such as automatic price verification and email, entering and sending invoices has never been easier.

Flexible and easy to use, Empower-AR’s check entry module improves the efficiency of recording cash receipts. Using any one of EmpowerAR’s four automatic application methods, the application of cash to open invoices has never been faster. Features such as NSF checks and the ability to reverse any application means greater accuracy and elimination of unnecessary paperwork.

With EmpowerAR’s intuitive question and answer inquiry, you have access to information when you need it. Knowing a customer’s receivables position at all times means you can manage your business better. Feature Checklist

EmpowerFA

EmpowerFA is a comprehensive asset management system designed to give you complete control over each event in the life of an asset.

EmpowerFA increases your ability to manage your asset base by collecting a variety of information for each asset. In addition to basic asset ID and description, EmpowerFA records all information related to the purchase of the asset, the ways in which the asset is depreciated, where the asset is located, what groups it belongs to, how to account for all transactions that affect your financial statements, and what parameters are needed for insuring and/or budgeting to replace the asset.

Once the asset is recorded, EmpowerFA enables each asset to be depreciated within multiple books, such as book, tax or state reporting. Within each book, EmpowerFA supports a wide variety of depreciation methods, including straight line, MACRS, and ACRS.

We also realize that to effectively manage your asset base you need to go beyond just recording and depreciating your assets. Empower-FA’s physical count module provides an efficient methodology to periodically count each asset and document the date of the physical count.

EmpowerFA’s ability to assign each asset to multiple groups means you can track the use of an asset in multiple ways.

Additional management information, such as replacement costs tied to industry-specific indexes, means better control and management of all your assets.

Features Checklist:

Asset Information

Up to 50 alphanumeric character asset ID

Unlimited number of characters for the asset description

Include scanned images for easier identification of the asset

Record manufacturer, model serial number, PO # and vendor information for each asset

Use an cost indexes such as the CPI to index the replacement cost of each asset

Record the insurance carrier of insured assets

Report the difference between net book value, insured value and replacement cost for analysis

Additional Features

Multiple companies

Secure access via username and password

Intuitive navigation

Establish menus/navigation by job task or by user

User preferences establish business rules for processing

Client Server Technology

Open system architecture

Multiple DBMS support for Oracle, Microsoft SQLServer, Sybase and SQLAnywhere

Client support for WindowsNT, Window 3.x or Windows95

Service and Support

Onsite installation

Onsite training

Custom programming

Source code

Annual maintenance

Software enhancement lists

User conferences

EmpowerGL

EmpowerGL merges the power of today’s technology with proven features resulting from years of experience in developing financial information systems.

The result is a comprehensive financial information system designed for use by managers and finance professionals throughout your organization.

Designed to work the way you do, EmpowerGL lets you define how you want to structure your financial database, then helps you create one or more ledgers to meet your financial information requirements.

Whether your requirements are a single ledger or a multicompany, multicurrency system of ledgers, EmpowerGL’s flexibility and comprehensive set of features ensure you will be able to meet your current and future needs.

Support for direct posting from non-Empower applications written in PowerBuilder®

Secure access via username and password

Intuitive navigation

Establish menus/navigation by job task or by user

User preferences establish business rules for processing

Client Server Technology

Open system architecture

Multiple DBMS support for Oracle, Microsoft SQLServer, Sybase and SQLAnywhere

Client support for WindowsNT, Window 95/98 or Windows2000

Service and Support

Onsite installation

Onsite training

Custom programming

Source code

Annual maintenance

Software enhancement lists

User conferences

EmpowerHR

EmpowerHR is a comprehensive personnel system, giving you rapid access to information and the ability to quickly answer a wide variety of questions.

With EmpowerHR, personnel departments can maintain electronic employee personnel folders, define and enter employee benefits, track employee entitlements( such as vacation and sick time), define and enter employee retirement plans, enter and review applicant informa-tion, set-up and monitor COBRA requirements, perform wage analyses and employee reviews, establish and monitor training requirements and certification by position, and produce EEOC and OSHA reports. What this means is that with EmpowerHR you gain rapid access to employee information and can easily recall and analyze that infor-mation to answer a wide variety of questions about your employee or applicant population.

As equally important as Empower-HR’s list of features is how easy EmpowerHR is to learn and use. Integrated, context sensitive help buttons are available on each window. EmpowerHR’s user-defined table structure provides optimum flexibility and guarantees you work with your nomenclature, not ours.

While features are important, the true measure of any personnel software is the ability to query and analyze your information. EmpowerHR provides a comprehensive set of analytical tools to ensure that captured information is reported and analyzed in a meaning-ful way. First among these is a series of inquiries. Second is a set of stan-dard reports. And third is a compre-hensive report writer that allows users to query information and produce custom reports.

Multiple DBMS support for Oracle, Microsoft SQLServer, Sybase and SQLAnywhere

Client support for WindowsNT, Window 3.x or Windows95

Service and Support

Onsite installation

Onsite training

Custom programming

Source code

Annual maintenance

Software enhancement lists

User conferences

EmpowerIV

EmpowerIV is the heart of Empower’s e-business distribution software, providing the tools you need to ensure your inventory levels meet the demand of your organization in the most cost effective way possible.

Knowing accurate levels of inventory and understanding current and future demands upon that inventory are crucial elements in creating customer satisfaction. EmpowerIV provides the e- business tools required to meet this objective head on.

Starting with EmpowerIV’s extensive item catalog, you can document all of the rules for selling, buying, and ware-housing each of the thousands of items used in your business. Multiple units of measure, multiple costing methods, and automatic generation of requisitions/ purchase orders are just a few of the many features EmpowerIV provides.

Keeping accurate on-hand balances and knowing future demand and supply of every item is easy with EmpowerIV. Item demand resulting from EmpowerSO, and item supply resulting from EmpowerPO, are sent to EmpowerIV instantaneously. Using this information, EmpowerIV deter-mines which items require attention and automatically creates an un-approved requisition of purchase order for these items. The inventory manager can electronically review the requisition/purchase order, check past usage of the item, then approve, cancel, or adjust the document with a few clicks of the mouse.

Since EmpowerIV handles the tough part of the job, that means you have more time to sit down and analyze inventory usage using EmpowerIV’s inquiry capability, which provides the entire history of each item from a single window.

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Item Catalogs

Unlimited text for item description

Item catalog allows different units of measure for inventory, purchase, sales, and analysis

Assign user defined commodity codes to each item

Item catalog allows for an unlimited number of vendors per item

Separate terms and conditions for each vendor/item

Ability to mark a primary vendor for each item

Establish receiving tolerance by percentage or by quantity for each item

Multiple DBMS support for Oracle, Microsoft SQLServer, Sybase and SQLAnywhere

Client support for WindowsNT, Window 3.x or Windows95

Service and Support

Onsite installation

Onsite training

Custom programming

Source code

Annual maintenance

Software enhancement lists

User conferences

EmpowerPO

EmpowerPO is a complete, easy to use information system enabling you to better manage the procurement of goods and services for your business.

With EmpowerPO, purchasing agents can manage requisitions, purchase orders, receipts, and invoice approvals more efficiently and with greater flexibility than ever before.

EmpowerPO’s Requisition module offers you fully automated, electronic creation and approval of requisitions. Users can create requisitions then have EmpowerPO electronically route the requisition to one or more approvers based on the dollar value of the requisition and/or the GL Accounts charged.

EmpowerPO’s Receiving and Invoice modules insure that only what is ordered is what is received and paid for by using a three-way electronic match. EmpowerPO expedites solutions to problem invoices by electronically routing discrepancies to the appropriate person and improving communication between vendors, buyers, and requestors. Feature Checklist

Requisitions

Create electronic requisitions on any workstation in your organization

Quickly select items from pre-defined vendor catalogs to set price optimum order quantities

Order new or one-time items without having to set up a vendor catalog

Automatically assigns a list of approvers to the requisition upon completion

Approvers assigned based on dollar amount of the requisition and/or departments/accounts

Requisitions are electronically routed to each approver in the correct order

Route requisitions across the room or across the country

Requestors can always view the status of a requisition

Approvers can create notes to pass along the approval trail

Requesters can view notes during the approval process

Automatically creates the purchase order when all approvals are entered

Purchase Orders

Enter via keyboard or automatically created from approved requisitions

Use multiple PO types to determine rules for processing blankets, inventory, and service POs

Enter POs as approved or unapproved

Electronically route unapproved POs to buyers

Automatically assigns PO numbers

Use character prefixes with PO numbers to identify the source of the PO

Search for PO numbers in seven different ways including vendor, buyer, date, requestor and item

Record confirmation date and who the confirmation was with

Freight/taxes can be pre-approved when the PO is created, or specified by amount if they are known

Establish item catalog for regularly purchased items

Enter an unlimited number of suppliers, their terms and conditions, for each item

Establish price and/or quantity tolerances by percent or by amount for each item/vendor

Empower automatically calculates and stores average days to deliver

Use different units of measure for quantity ordered and price

Expense one item to multiple departments or cost centers by amount or by percentage

Assign items to pre-defined commodity classes for expense analysis

Track items purchased by cost code in addition to ledger account

Record vendor item numbers in addition to internal item codes

Establish separate required dates, ETA dates and shipment dates for each item of a purchase order

Enter comments for the PO or for each line

Indicate if comments are printed on the PO or only available for receiving

Specify up to two taxes per item

PO Printing

Print a PO at a time, or print all POs created in a day

Re-print a PO at any time

Print cancelled and change orders

Print or fax POs to vendors

Print on pre-printed forms or laser stock

Receiving

Receive items by PO

Record the bill of lading or packing slip ID to facilitate invoice matching

Record the receiver, carrier, location, and date

Empower displays each open item, eliminating the need for typing

Allows partial receipts for any item

Allows multiple receipts per item

Allows changes to/deletions of incorrect receipts

Ability to expense upon receipt

Invoicing/Credit Memos

Enter invoices by PO number

Automatic three-way match between the PO, receipt and invoice

Checks PO price against invoice price

Checks life-to-date invoiced amount against PO amount

Checks invoice quantity against received quantity

Checks if PO is open, and not cancelled

Invoices with variances of quantity or price are entered as unapproved and routed to an approver

Approver can reconcile problem, correct PO/receiver/invoice

Approver can record notes of what action was taken

Credit memos can re-open a PO item for receiving corrected items without creating a new PO

EmpowerPY

EmpowerPY is a comprehensive payroll system enabling you to easily track employee time, accurately calculate employee pay and easily distribute checks and pay liabilities to the government.

EmpowerPY takes the work out of recording, calculating and distributing your employees payroll information. Whether your payroll processing is complex, requiring multiple pay frequencies for different business units, or a simple weekly payroll, EmpowerPY’s table driven set-up makes it easy.

At the core of EmpowerPY’s capabilities lies an easy to use interface where you establish the rules for calculating pay, deduction, benefits, retirements, entitlements and taxes. Complex calculations using prorated amounts, percentages, annual salary basis and/or rates per 1000 are all possible with the EmpowerPY solution.

Whether your employees choose direct deposit or printed checks EmpowerPY has a variety of ways to make life easy in the payroll department. Printed checks use convenient laser forms and with EmpowerPY’s Print Restart capabilities your check numbers are always in sync with your laser forms. If your employees choose direct deposit, EmpowerPY provides for multiple direct deposits per check as well as the ability to override a direct deposit in order to receive a printed check for special bonus or incentive payrolls.

Multiple DBMS support for Oracle, Microsoft SQLServer, Sybase and SQLAnywhere

Client support for WindowsNT, Window 3.x or Windows95

Service and Support

Onsite installation

Onsite training

Custom programming

Source code

Annual maintenance

Software enhancement lists

User conferences

EmpowerSO

EmpowerSO is the cornerstone module of the Empower e-business distribution software, providing the technology you need to better manage the entire sales cycle of your products.

Whether you begin by entering a quote on the Web or by placing an order from your desk, EmpowerSO works with you during each step of processing the order: from approval, to acknowledgement, to confirmation, to procurement, to logistics, to shipping, to billing, to collection.

After the order is processed, EmpowerSO’s Sales Analysis module provides timely reporting of gross sales, gross margin, and net profit to keep you on top of what products and customers are having the greatest impact on your sales and on your bottom line.

Efficiency is one of the hallmarks of EmpowerSO. Once a quote/order has been placed, all of the processing related to that quote/order is handled electronically, eliminating the usual delays inherent in manual paper based systems.

Communication within your organization, as well as with your customers, is improved using EmpowerSO’s Internet module, EmpowerAccess. With Empower-Access your agents and/or customers can easily track the progress of their orders at any time during the day or night. Feature Checklist:

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